Accreditation and CLE Rules for Washington

National Academy of Continuing Legal Education has been approved for accredited sponsor status by the Washington State Board of Mandatory Continuing Legal Education. All courses offered by the National Academy
of Continuing Legal Education have been directly approved by the WSBA. You can see our official approval letter here: WASponsor_Approval.pdf.

WA attorneys must complete 45 total MCLE approved credits every three years of which 6 hours must be in the area of ethics and at least 15 in the area of Law and Legal Procedure. Law and Legal Procedure (Black Letter Law) activities are defined as legal education relating to substantive law, legal procedure, process, research, writing, analysis, or related skills and technology approved for CLE credit.
Attorneys may carry over a maximum of 15 credits including a maximum of 2 Ethics credits for a period of 36 months.

NEW! Effective January 1, 2016: WA eliminated the “live” requirement. All 45 hours can be earned via “AV” formats including online, CD’s and DVD’s. You can now earn all 45 credits with NACLE!

WSBA members are divided into three MCLE reporting groups based upon year of admission.
Group 1: Admitted through 1975, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016
Group 2: Admitted in 1976 through 1983, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001,
2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2017Group 3: Admitted in 1984 through 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002,
2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018
The CLE deadline for Group 1 is Dec 31, 2016, for Group 2 is Dec
31, 2017 and for Group 3 is Dec 31, 2018. The deadline for reporting is Feb 1.

Newly admitted members are exempt from reporting CLE credits for the year of their
admission and the following calendar year. For example, if you were admitted in
2015 or 2016, you would not report for the reporting period of 2014-2016 even though you
are in Group 1. You would first report at the end of the 2017-2019 reporting period.
Members admitted in 2017 will first report at the end of the 2018–2020 reporting
period. Members admitted in 2018 will first report at the end of the 2019–2021 reporting
period. When new members report at the end of their first reporting period, they
may claim all CLE credits earned on or after their date of admission to the WSBA.

Issues addressed include:

Coverage: The impact of a bankruptcy filing, and the potential impact of a plan of reorganization, which can alter policy obligations. Additionally, erosion of policy limits can also be affected by bankruptcy.

Claims Handling: Insurers have potential exposure for making claim payments in violation of the bankruptcy stay. However, there are circumstances that allow an insurer to make claim payments.

Lecturer Bio

Michael S. Davis, Esq.

Michael S. Davis has been a partner at ZEK since 1999. Mike has over 40 years of experience in a wide range of commercial litigation, concentrating in bankruptcy, insurance and insurance-related arbitration. His experience also includes antitrust, contracts, employment, maritime, real estate, reinsurance and securities matters. He has lectured on many of these subjects at Long Island University and to business audiences.
He began his legal career as an associate at Chadbourne & Parke and later served for six years as Senior Counsel in charge of Corporate Litigation at American International Group, Inc. For the eleven years immediately prior to joining ZEK, Mike was a partner at Zalkin, Rodin & Goodman LLP.
At this time, Mike’s practice focuses on the representation of insurance companies in commercial bankruptcy matters, both as creditors and as insurers. Mike also has an active arbitration practice.

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